MC Tunes.....or Nicholas Lockett to his mum!!
A genre-defining, time-defining album. Brought to everyone's attention by the synonymous track The Only Rhyme That Bites, listeners to the album were confronted with what can only be described as a blistering assault of hip-hop/rap and gritty reality.
Drugs, death, hard times, politics... all were given vicious-yet-poetic treatment, and all tracks leave such an impression at the time, that each will be forever embedded in your memory. The stark and brutal depiction that is My Own Worst Enemy might be the track that lives longest, though. Even more so than the popular and brilliant chart single tracks (T.O.R.T.B and Tunes Splits The Atom). The depth of feeling in his vocal performances are more than equalled by the song-writing and lyricism. 808 State provided the beats in their trademark understated brilliant fashion.
The Only Rhyme That Bites
This Ain’t No Fantasy
Dance Yourself To Death
Own Worst Enemy
The North At Its Heights
Tunes Splits The Atom
Mancunian Blues
The Sequel
Primary Rhyming
Dub At Its Heights
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